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Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens

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Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens.

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It has a plugin system to customize filters per command.The idea is pretty simple: agents don't need the full kubectl get -o yaml or any 10k-line dump to make decisions.

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So that lowfat sits in between, strips the noise, and passes through what matters.Here's my real report after 2 months of personal use:lowfat history --all lowfat plugin candidates ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # command runs avg raw cost savings source status 1 kubectl get 101x 14.4K 1.5M 93.9% plugin good 2 grep 103x 13.5K 1.4M 96.2% plugin good 3 git diff 81x 995 80.6K 57.9% built-in good 4 kubectl 90x 485 43.6K 33.6% plugin good 5 docker 127x 5.5K 693.6K 96.1% built-in good 6 ls 489x 117 57.3K 56.2% built-in good 7 find 30x 16.5K 495.0K 95.5%...

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